A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . Radio Ambulance — Madame Curie at rear. Hospital nursing staff with matron in center, and Madame Curie to right CHAPTER XV A MILITARY HOSPITAL We were now a fully recognized Belgian Mili-tary Hospital although we were staffed by Englishsurgeons and nurses. But the arrival of the Bel-gian Surgeon Major and his staff of officers gaveus a standing we never had before, and a Powerwas behind us. After the great rush of April,1915, we assumed more and more the nature ofa base hospital, yet with the unspeakable advan-tage of being only th
A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . Radio Ambulance — Madame Curie at rear. Hospital nursing staff with matron in center, and Madame Curie to right CHAPTER XV A MILITARY HOSPITAL We were now a fully recognized Belgian Mili-tary Hospital although we were staffed by Englishsurgeons and nurses. But the arrival of the Bel-gian Surgeon Major and his staff of officers gaveus a standing we never had before, and a Powerwas behind us. After the great rush of April,1915, we assumed more and more the nature ofa base hospital, yet with the unspeakable advan-tage of being only three or four miles from thebattle-line. We were thus able not only to savea great many lives that would have died during along initial journey, but also to see our patientswell on the road to recovery before we sent them,not to a base-hospital now, but to a convalescenthome. We enlarged our borders and our boardersand added four large wooden huts. These cameout in sections from England, and it took twentysoldiers just one day to erect one hut. They wereraised off the ground on wooden rests, held th
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